Seebeck Coefficient of CePd3 |
| G.D. Mahana and M. Bartkowiaka,b a Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA, and Solid State Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6032, USA b Institute of Physics, A. Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 85, 61-614 Poznań, Poland |
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| Rare earth compounds have potential applications in thermoelectric devices due to their large value of conductivity and Seebeck coefficient. CePd3 has the highest reported Seebeck coefficient (S ~ 125 μV/K), when doped appropriately, among all rare-earth compounds. This high value is explained as a result of the placement of the cerium f1 level. |
| DOI: 10.12693/APhysPolA.97.37 PACS numbers: 72.15.Jf, 72.15.Qm, 75.20.Hr |